Advisor Application Architect (51000004)

Job description

·  Job Description:

Essential Job Functions

·  Conducts technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of moderately complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that tools are current and functional.
·  Creates application architectures and populates an application host/configuration matrices with appropriate strategies, timelines, and cost information to increase cost efficiency and effectiveness.
·  Coordinates with application developers, managers and customer application experts to ensure that required features and modifications are included in the appropriates releases to support cross-product features and to communicate architectural designs and standards.
·  Designs application modules that work together to produce desired product. Ensures that completed modules provide functionality described by application experts and to ensure that performance guidelines are met.
·  Plans technical support infrastructure through the creation of service level agreements; leads the transition from application development to support to ensure that appropriate support is available to clients in a timely and efficient manner.
·  Provides high-level analysis and design reviews to other department members to avoid duplication of effort in solving the same application problems with different products.
·  Works with third party vendors to develop and/or integrate their applications into company products; ensures that applications are in accordance with company product standards and guidelines.
·  Works with product development teams and senior designers to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product.

Basic Qualifications

·  Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
·  Bachelor's degree in business, software engineering, computer science or related field preferred
·  Nine or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience
·  Experience working with software systems, applications and network markets
·  Experience working with technical products, vendors, and families of technologies and company software and hardware products
·  Experience working with application design principles and product configurations
·  Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software
·  Experience working with mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
·  Experience working with software development life cycle

Other Qualifications

·  Personal computer and business solutions software skills
·  Good communication skills to communicate with customers, vendors, business unit personnel, support personnel, application development personnel and management
·  Good analytical and problem solving skills for design, coordination and testing of applications
·  Good skills in application administration, design and architecture
·  Ability to work in a team environment
·  Ability to create and maintain formal and informal networks
·  Ability to work with relational databases

Work Environment

·  Office environment